The Bibites 0.6 Alpha 6: Lotsa Zones and Settings

A list is better than a thousand words

Visuals/Graphics/Preferences/UX:

• Color picker Settings
• Background grid option (also available in visibility panel)
• Added Shade Option, emulating the effects of microscope outside of the simulation area.
• Bibite will automatically stay out of the shade, just so that they don't disappear
• Rework to UI scaling and screen options
• Added Escape Stack, which allow to recursively close the last opened panel/action
• Added identifiers to differentiate official templates from user templates, as well as scenarios
• Small visual changes to the Dynamic Settings panel
• Editable values change the cursor on hover

Zones and Zone Groups Settings: 

• Zone fertility and biomass calculations have been completely reworked. Instead of splitting the total biomass (biomassDensity x totalArea) across all zones based on their respective fertility weigths, each zones are now independent. Zone biomass/fertility = zoneArea x globalFertility x zoneFertilityFactor
• Zone Biomass Factor and Zone Fertilty Factor are now independant
• Imported saves/scenarios will automatically have their settings adjusted to preserve conditions
• Added Zone Distributions (normal, flat, reversed, ring)
• Added possibility for empty zones (no pellets)
• Added different movement types (none, normal, attached)
• Possibility for zones to be attached to another zone and move with it.
• Added global zone speed setting
• Added Zone Groups, allowing multiples zones to be created from a single template zone.
• Ability the zone count to either scale with sim size or be fixed.
• The zones from a group will be placed randomly each time a new game is started from the scenario
• Ability to reroll zones random placement
• Eventually will add the ability for more customization
• Added Zone name to previews in Scenario Editor
• Added Biomass and Pellets estimation to Scenario Editor

All Settings:

• Most settings now automatically adjust their units to be more readable (following SI unit prefixes)
• Some settings now directly have a logarithmic range instead of using abstract exponents factors (like zones fertility factor)
• In order to edit a setting, you now only need to click on the displayed value to reveal the edit field
• Time scale can be edited just like other settings, by clicking on the displayed value to edit it directly.

Bibite Settings:

• You can now decide which zone bibites will spawn in. All is default.
• You can now decide the initial growth of spawned bibites
• The minimum setting for default bibites will now take into account all descendants from all species that stemmed from the default bibite instead of the tag count
• Temporarily removed default tagging until a better system can be figured out
• Alive count and descendant count visible in species info panel

In-Game:

• Bibites maturity has been normalized so that they are only considered mature (maturity = 1) if they are able to lay eggs (have sufficient growth and have a big enough womb)
• Added share information to species in lineage graph
• Added tooltips to dropdown settings
• Bibite brain updates now unlinked from fps, now steady 20upd/s
• Dragging bibites while pressing [CTRL] instead changes their rotation
• Bibite will always be born facing away from their parents

Fixes:

• Fixes to the innovation numbers when loading bibites
• Fixed bug leaving tooltip when closing Lineage panel
• Bibite Updater now correctly takes innovation numbers into account
• Some warnings now correctly block interactions wit the game
• Fixed timeSpeed irregularity in energy consumption for movement
• Removed redundant information from saved bibites
• Fixed bug that made timespeed inconsistent on simulation start
• Fix to panels not closing correctly when Saving Scenario from the scenario editor
• Removed the energy reserve for zones, as it prevented small zones to spawn all their pellet
• Fixed error message when changing scenes
• Few typo fixes
• Fixed Rendering for ColorKillers
• Fixed Lineage Mesh Preview stopping the information hover